The Everything Sequel Podcast

Soon we're going back to the well of 1990! Until then, here's a refresher from our archives. Listen to our original ranking episode for our first four 1990 single sequels. Enjoy! Thanks to our monthly supporters Matt and Vicki S Kate L Daniel Prudhoe Andrew Pangle Steve Weiss Matthew Aldrich Edward Lankford Heather Sahami

Listen as Mike and Tom discuss what it means for sequels now that franchises have taken over the industry. You'll hear what movie inspired this talk, what your hosts think about this phenomenon and an update on what we'll be doing next. Thanks to our monthly supporters Matt and Vicki S Kate L Daniel Prudhoe Andrew Pangle Steve Weiss Matthew Aldrich Edward Lankford Heather Sahami

Listen as Mike and Tom pitch sequel to The Bad News Bears series. You'll hear which of your hosts pick up the bait left by the last movie in the series and which host tries to hastily add it to his pitch, how the CIA applies to one of these pitches and which of the pitches includes all three coaches from the previous movies. Thanks to our monthly supporters Matt and Vicki S Kate L Daniel Prudhoe A...

Listen as Mike and Tom discuss the 1978 sequel The Bad News Bears Go to Japan. You'll hear why we thought this would be the most racist sequel in the series and how it wasn't, what we think of Tony Curtis taking center stage and how this movie goes from bad to crazy to sweet to pretty fun. Enjoy! Thanks to our monthly supporters Matt and Vicki S Kate L Daniel Prudhoe Andrew Pangle Steve Weiss Matt...

Listen as Mike and Tom discuss the 1977 sequel The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training. You'll hear the highs and lows of watching a late 70's movie that will include great father and son scenes but a lot of racism, talk about how much baseball is in this movie and the wisdom in not introducing your main character until more than half way through the movie. Thanks to our monthly supporters Matt an...

Listen as Mike and Tom rank and declare for the Bad News Bears sequels. You'll hear the struggle your hosts have when confronted with these two strange movies, if one of these movies can make the top of both our lists and if either movie can be declared good. Thanks to our monthly supporters Matt and Vicki S Kate L Daniel Prudhoe Andrew Pangle Steve Weiss Matthew Aldrich Edward Lankford Heather Sa...

Listen as Mike and Tom pitch sequels to the Omen series! You'll hear the extent to which Tom dislikes another of Mike's titles, if Mike approves of Tom's title and what each of your hosts decide to do with the threads left by the last movie in the series. Thanks to our monthly supporters Matt and Vicki S Kate L Daniel Prudhoe Andrew Pangle Steve Weiss Matthew Aldrich Edward Lankford Heather Sahami

Listen as Mike and Tom discuss the 1991 Canadian TV sequel Omen IV: The Awakening. You'll hear how many different genres of movie we think this film can claim to be, discussions about how and why the movie keeps the fact it's a sequel a secret based on the plot choices it makes and what, if anything, can explain why Mike liked this movie so much. Thanks to our monthly supporters Matt and Vicki S K...

Listen as Mike and Tom discuss the 1981 sequel Omen III: The Final Conflict. You'll hear whether or not that's even the title of this movie, what we think of Sam Neil taking over as Damien and continue to follow the storyline and quest of the seven daggers of the meggido and the bumbling priests who use them. Thanks to our monthly supporters Matt and Vicki S Kate L Daniel Prudhoe Andrew Pangle Ste...

Listen as Mike and Tom discuss the 1978 sequel Damien: Omen II. You'll hear what we think about the stellar cast of this movie as well as the two directors who worked on it, opinions on the movie switching from dogs to birds as the evil pets and musings over whether or not this movie predicts Ronald Reagan's America. Thanks to our monthly supporters Matt and Vicki S Kate L Daniel Prudhoe Andrew Pa...

Listen as Mike and Tom rank and declare for The Omen series. You'll hear whether or not we have the same movie at the top of our lists, which movie makes the bottom of both our lists and what Mike has to say about the series that both surprises Tom and makes him contemplate whether or not he's thinking about this series enough. Thanks to our monthly supporters Matt and Vicki S Kate L Daniel Prudho...

Listen as Mike and Tom discuss the 1978 film Superman: The Movie. This is a one time peek at our bonus episodes that will be available for our Patreon subscribers. You'll hear the extent of our unabashed love for everything in this movie including the opening on Krypton, Christopher Reeve as the titular character and Gene Hackman and Ned Beatty's chemistry as the main villains. Thanks to our month...

Listen as Mike and Tom pitch sequels to the Robocop series. You'll hear what gives your hosts fits of laughter once Tom starts his pitch, whether or not Mike will have a title that includes anything past a number and if either of us can fully understand each other's pitches. Thanks to our monthly supporters Matt and Vicki S Kate L Daniel Prudhoe Andrew Pangle Steve Weiss Matthew Aldrich Edward Lan...

Listen as Mike and Tom discuss the 1993 sequel Robocop 3. You'll hear Tom's arguments against some character names that he argues do not represent who the characters are or what they do, discussions about the deep bench of supporting players that can't manage to make the most out of bad dialogue and a chat about America's apparent fascination and fear of Japanese culture in the early nineties. Tha...

Listen as Mike and Tom announce their plans for a Patreon. You'll hear what you get for five dollars, what you get for ten dollars, our plans for you if you decide to give us a silly amount of money and what you can expect if you give us an obscene amount of money. Thanks to our monthly supporters Matt and Vicki S Kate L Daniel Prudhoe Andrew Pangle Steve Weiss Matthew Aldrich Edward Lankford Heat...

Listen as Mike and Tom discuss the 1990 sequel Robocop 2. You'll hear what we thinks works about this sequel and what we have to admit does not, how much Mike's Irvin Kershner impression has devolved and who it sounds like now and a labored discussion about the last five seconds of the movie that includes a joke, what we think of the joke and whether or not the joke works. Thanks to our monthly su...

Listen as Mike and Tom rank and declare for the Robocop series. You'll hear which of these movies we think is much better than the other, musings about an old sequel directing friend because Irvin Kershner directs one of these sequels and discussions about the Larry David and NBC prime-time school of actors that pack one of these films. Thanks to our monthly supporters Matt and Vicki S Kate L Dani...

Listen as Mike and Tom discuss their 200th episode with the 1994 sequel Star Trek: Generations. You'll hear the state of the podcast including some new and exciting news for fans, whether or not we think Star Trek: Generations is good and where it ranks with TOS and why this is a perfect bridge movie to our next 100 episodes. Thanks for joining us in the balcony for this ride! Thanks to our monthl...

Listen as Mike and Tom pitch sequels to Sam Raimi's Spider-Man series. You'll hear whether or not we can manage to like each other's titles even a little bit, which of your hosts takes Spider-Man on vacation for their sequel pitch and which of us decides to kill off a major character in their sequel pitch's cold open. Thanks to our monthly supporters Matt and Vicki S Kate L Daniel Prudhoe Andrew P...

Listen as Mike and Tom discuss the 2007 sequel Spider-Man 3. You'll hear what we think of the villain heavy sequel and how thinly that choice spreads the narrative of the film, how odd it is this movie believes that only about six people live in New York and the coincidence heavy relation they have to each other and how this movie finally got us on its side, if only briefly. Thanks to our monthly...

Listen as Mike and Tom discuss the 2004 sequel Spider-Man 2. You'll hear how good each of your hosts think this movie is, what about the movie works so well and the few places it falls short and what we think of the set pieces and action scenes that set this movie apart from the sequel that follows it. Thanks to our monthly supporters Matt and Vicki S Kate L Daniel Prudhoe Andrew Pangle Steve Weis...

Listen as Mike and Tom rank and declare the Sam Raimi Spider-Man sequels. You'll hear how difficult it is for us to conceal our rankings and declariations for these two sequels, our final decisions which we feel are easy to come to based on what the filmmakers gave us and discussions as to how good one of these movies is and how bad the other movie is according to your fearless podcasters.  Thanks...

Listen as Mike and Tom pitch sequels to the original Star Wars trilogy. You'll hear yet another disagreement about titles in which Tom describes Mike's title as the one weak link and then believes Mike to retaliate in not at all good faith, where we decide to place our sequels and the not planned excellent place we put them to create a pentalogy for the series and finally you'll hear what we decid...

Listen as Mike and Tom continue to talk about the 1983 sequel Return of the Jedi. You'll hear what we think about the Ewoks and if we find them as egregious as fandom does, what we have to say about the speeder bike chase and how much we love the sound work in that scene and where we think the last lightsaber fight stands in the series. Thanks to our monthly supporters Matt and Vicki S Kate L Dani...

Listen as Mike and Tom start discussing the 1983 sequel Return of the Jedi. You'll hear how far we get in this first part for Jedi (spoiler alert, we don't get past Jabba), the differences we see between the original and the movie as it stands today and what we think about Harrison Ford's commitment, his blind acting and how much we love him anyway. Thanks to our monthly supporters Matt and Vicki...